“Math is a very peculiar thing, for in it all numbers have a double but not all have halves.”

“Math is a very peculiar thing, for in it all numbers have a double but not all have halves.”

“Math is a very peculiar thing, for in it all numbers have a double but not all have halves.”

“Look," she said, and just that. That was the only time she opened her mouth, because she wanted to say something unnecessary, something that wouldn't be important or memorable, so I wouldn't have to remember her voice.We looked at the veil then, the thing that had turned her this way, and we smiled.”

“Maybe it was Cara's version of darkness that told me she was empty. She didn't believe in letting light in through cracks or streams, and I'm not sure she believed in letting it in at all. Cara was the empty feeling in my heart, the offness of the drumbeat in a funeral song. She didn't believe in letting the light in through cracks because she didn't believe in letting the light in at all.”